Free Courses

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.

Access to healthcare services is critical – but is it enough?

Learn the anatomy basic to understanding five musculoskeletal injuries commonly seen in primary care medicine and orthopedic clinical specialty practice. Follow hypothetical patients from injury to operating room.

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Learn about the Qin and Han dynasties, and how Buddhism and ideas of self-realization influenced the medieval period.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

Gain a foundational knowledge of American constitutional democracy while crafting your own civic voice and identity.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

Reimagine global health problems with some of the leading global health thinkers and actors through a case-based biosocial framework.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

Develop skills in digital research and visualization techniques across subjects and fields within the humanities.

Gain an understanding of history, museum studies, and curation by looking at, organizing, and interpreting art, artifacts, scientific curiosities, and the stuff of everyday life.

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.